Andy Macneil

Increasingly disillusioned.

[Friends Of Wings @FOWingsScot]

This SNP defeat immediately raises the question of whether the party would have been voted back into government if CEO embezzler Murrell had been up in court pleading guilty BEFORE the Holyrood election

[Neil McIntosh @nmcintosh]

I'd stand by any of my reporters who decided to leave the pen to ask a politician a question. Let's see if they start throwing people out.

[Chris Deerin @chrisdeerin]

What a repulsive wee man

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

The optics of all this are terrible, and avoidable. And the early spin that Gibson would be a break from the past in terms of lap-dog ‘speakers’ was way off the mark.

[Craig Meighan @craigymeighan]

Presiding Officer Kenneth Gibson refuses to stop for reporters' questions as we are penned in. Anas Sarwar, Russell Findlay and Alex Cole-Hamilton condemn the move. Greens' Ross Greer and Q Manivannan refuse to stop but Greer says we should question the behaviour of reporters.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

1/ Hannah Mary Goodlad makes a blatantly false claim about the relative performance of Scotland’s economy in parliament today.

The truth: between Q1 2016 and Q1 2026, real GDP growth in Scotland was 6.8% vs real GDP growth of 13.7% for the UK over the same period.

[Benjamin Harrop @benjamin_harrop]

💥 The Scottish Government’s attempt to prevent the disclosure of communications relating to John Swinney’s Chief of Staff, Colin McAllister potential involvement in the redactions to the Hamilton report (where he admitted to forgetting about what happened during a key meeting

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

A handy crib sheet for any journalist asking John Swinney about the indyref fundraiser money. https://t.co/SoS7U6bIcO

[Paul McManus DR11UMS @Dr11Ums]

@PeteWishart Facts are best established & exposed in court under oath. You stick to your cosy wee committees - leave the grown up stuff to me and my formidable legal team. Watch from the public gallery whilst I haul your ex and current colleagues in front of a judge. Actions have consequences

[John Smythe @JohnSmytheInves]

@TheIndyNinja1 @ianbhood @paul At the forgotten meeting Sturgeon was told not only of the complaints by Geoff Aberdein but also, so she claims, that Alex Salmond was considering resigning. That this info came from this meeting & only this meeting makes it even less likely she could have forgotten about it.

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

I can’t say it any more plainly.

Independence supporters have been lied to.

Independence supporters have been fleeced.

There is no plan, secret or otherwise.

Those raising the alarm were monstered, blamed and vilified.

You’re flogging a dead horse.

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

The current interim Crown Agent, John Logue, is a friend of Harvie and both worked as prosecutors in the Lockerbie trial that many experts, domestic and international, believe resulted in the wrongful prosecution of Abdelbasset al Megrahi and a serious miscarriage of justice.

The reason this all stinks is because there is genuinely something rotting away within the "institutionally corrupt" @copfs.

There is a festering cultural problem within that most powerful and currently untouchable institution embedded deep within the Scottish Government.

That stench will continue until there are politicians with actual backbones willing to do something about it. Sadly, our current political class can barely lift up their own wrists.

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

Worth highlighting again that Harvie previously worked in the Foreign Office on secondment from MI5 prior to becoming Crown Agent at COPFS.

It was Harvie, in that role, who directed the prosecution against me and Alex Salmond that ultimately failed.

So the question really is, who actually runs Scotland.

As for the other individual shown... Well, where to begin!

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

I wouldn't dismiss the brown paper envelopes with cash-bungs inside. It literally happened.

It didn't happening in remote, dingy carparks however, but in specific MSPs offices and the one handing the cash out to favoured MSPs ("not to appear anywhere") is none other than "Honest John".

I know this because I witnessed it and recorded it. That evidence was then passed to the investigations unit of the Electoral Commission.

They spent six months examining it and other corrupt practices and concluded it was of such seriousness that they reported it to the serious and organised crime division at, you guessed it, the festering Crown Office, Scotland's prosecutor...

They concluded it was not in the public interest to bring any prosecutions!

The stench has been there for decades.

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

Now we know why they were hell bent on stopping Alex. He would’ve initiated an immediate investigation into the finances. This I state with absolute confidence.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

"What? Where?"

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

1/
🧵Things I now believe to be true.

Scotland has not just watched a party finance scandal. It has watched the state, the party machine and the prosecution system close ranks in real time.

The public were expected to notice nothing.

Unfortunately for them, we did.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

@S_A_Somerville @MeghanSCUP We can type this out in capitals if helpful for the Minister...

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Very embarrassing from @S_A_Somerville who replied to @MeghanSCUP saying the West Lothian school ruling was about "different legislation" to the Equality Act.

No, it was found to be indirect discrimination under the terms of EA2010. It's clearly amateur hour at Holyrood!

[𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 @overlandertheb1]

He surely can't go on a soccer jolly *now*?

And surely the Tartan Army can't afford the reputational risk of being seen with him?